is only as possible as a colour blind history,
which is to say it is not just impossible,
it is also absurd.
Any history where sight
is it's witness and informant
will always be a history of colour
whilst being a register of social class.
In the USA citizens vote for flawed Utopias,
in elections where they accept
that the flaws will never be fixed
but may be made 'manageable',
if the right president achieves office.
No president has ever taken on the history
where non-citizenship for the many
was part of the constitution, then it wasn't.
When the government broadened citizenship
it divided the country in a war
in which the losing side denied defeat
and saw no need for reconciliation,
no president has taken on all of this and won.
Now it seems to be too late
to expect such a person.
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